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• July 4, 2011 jshopa has been to Clifton Hill
  

  Clifton Hill

  Niagara Falls nearby tourist trap, Clifton Hill is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both

  “The Niagara Falls is simply a vast amount of water going the wrong way over some unnecessary rocks” said Oscar Wilde, ever the pessimist. However, had he visited today, and spent some time in... »

  Commercial Curiosities | Edited by GOF and M Rebekah Otto

• July 4, 2011 jshopa has been to The Vegreville Pysanka
  

  The Vegreville Pysanka

  Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt

  Located in Vegreville, Alberta, the world’s largest easter egg (in the fashion of a Ukranian Easter egg or "pysanka") weighs in at 5000 lbs, is 31 ft. tall, and 18 ft. wide, and took over 12,000... »

  Unusual Monuments | Edited by Bee

• July 4, 2011 jshopa has been to CN Tower: The Tallest Metal Staircase on Earth
  

  CN Tower: The Tallest Metal Staircase on Earth

  One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase

  The idea of the CN Tower originated from the 1968 Canadian National Railway's desire to build a large TV and radio communication platform to serve the Toronto area, as well as demonstrate the... »

  Architectural Oddities | Edited by canuck and Dylan

• July 4, 2011 jshopa has been to Medicine Lake
  

  Medicine Lake

  Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out

  Summer visitors to Medicine Lake would assume it is a normal mountain lake, but they would be wrong. During the summer, glacier melt waters flood the lake, sometimes overflowing it and in fall... »

  Watery Wonders | Edited by canuck and Dylan

• July 4, 2011 jshopa has been to Columbia Icefield
  

  Columbia Icefield

  A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains

  The Columbia Icefield is an icefield located in the Canadian Rockies, astride the Continental Divide of North America. The icefield lies partly in the northwestern tip of Banff and the... »

  Natural Wonders, Weird Weather Phenomena, Watery Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by canuck, Dylan and others

• July 4, 2011 jshopa has been to Frank Slide
  

  Frank Slide

  A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it

  The town of Frank in Alberta, Canada was a small 600 person, bucolic mining town. That is, of course, until a mountain fell on it. In the middle of the night on April 29th, 1903, a 3,280 foot... »

  Geological Oddities | Edited by banff

• July 4, 2011 jshopa has been to Stanley Park
  

  Stanley Park

  "Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright

  On the banks of Copenhagen sits the famous "Little Mermaid" sculpture, a nude woman based on a local ballerina - at least in the face, the body was based on the sculptors wife. The sculpture was... »

  Strange Statues | Edited by canuck

• July 4, 2011 jshopa has been to World's Largest Hockey Stick & Puck
  

  World's Largest Hockey Stick & Puck

  Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick

  Naturally, the worlds largest hockey stick and puck is found in, where else, Canada. The Cowichan Community Centre, in Duncan on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, boasts the largest hockey... »

  Unusual Monuments | Edited by AllisonEng

• July 4, 2011 jshopa has been to Goats on the Roof
  

  Goats on the Roof

  Old Country Market has a family of goats that live on the roof

  The original market was created by Kristian Graaten. Kris and his wife, Solveig, emigrated with their children to Vancouver Island from Norway in the 1950s. Kris, who grew up in the small... »

  Natural Wonders, Fascinating Fauna, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by canuck and Nicholas Jackson